The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford and Cromer Road

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford and Cromer Road - Sport and history on an East Anglian turnpike

Petersham, Surrey, February, 1904. List of Illustrations The NEWMARKET, BURY, THETFORD, and CROMER ROAD The road to Newmarket, Thetford, Norwich, and Cromer is 132 miles in length, if you go direct from the old starting-points, Shoreditch or Whitechapel churches. If, on the other hand, you elect to follow the route of the old Thetford and Norwich Mail, which turned off just outside Newmarket from the direct road through Barton Mills, and went instead by Bury St. Edmunds, it is exactly seven miles longer to Thetford and all places beyond. There are few roads so wild and desolate, and no other main road so lonely, in the southern half of this country. There are even those who describe it as dreary, but that is simply a description due to extrinsic circumstances. Beyond question, however, it must needs have been a terrible road in the old coaching days, and every one who had a choice of routes to Norwich did most emphatically and determinedly elect to journey by way of that more populated line of country leading through Chelmsford, Colchester, and Ipswich. 2Taken nowadays, however, without the harassing drawbacks of rain or snow, or without head-winds to make the cyclists progression a misery, it is a road of weirdly interesting scenery. It is not recommended for night-riding to the solitary rider of impressionable nature, for its general aloofness from the haunts of man, and that concentrated spell of sixteen miles of stark solitudes between Great Chesterford and Newmarket, where you have the bare chalk downs all to yourself, are apt to give all such as he that unpleasant sensation popularly called the creeps. By day, however, these things lose their uncanny effect while they keep their interest. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 59032
Author: Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
Release Date: Mar 8, 2019
Format: eBook
Language: English